ISBN:
9780803989238
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (193 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Media Culture & Society series
Parallel Title:
Print version Television and the Public Sphere : Citizenship, Democracy and the Media
DDC:
302.23/45
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Peter Dahlgren clarifies the underlying theoretical concepts of civil society and the public sphere, and relates these to a critical analysis of the practice of television as journalism, as information and as entertainment. He demonstrates the limits and the possibilities of the television medium and the formats of popular journalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Part I - Initial Horizons; Chapter 1 - Mediating Democracy; Desiring Democracy; The Public Sphere as Historical Narrative; Four Dimensions; Media Institutions; Media Representation; Social Structures; Interaction: Social Bonds and Social Construction; Subjectivity, Identity, Interaction; Chapter 2 - Prismatic Television; Three Angles of Vision; Industry: Organization, Professionalism, Political Economy; Mimetic Televisual Texts; Two Worlds?; Sociocultural TV: Ubiquity, Culturology and Critique; Chapter 3 - Popular Television Journalism
Description / Table of Contents:
Television Journalism: an Esential TensionProbing 'the Popular'; Old and New Formats; Elusive Information, Accessible Stories; Tele-tabloids; Talk Shows: Élite and Vox-pop; Morality and Dialogue; Part II - Shifting Frames; Chapter 4 - Modern Contingencies; Falling Rates of Certitude; Flowing Capitalism; Destabilized Microworlds; The Semiotic Environment; Going Global?; The Problematics of Public and Private; Political Permutations; Chapter 5 - Communication and Subjectivity; A Universal Model?; Language and Lacunae; Cultural Contexts; Repressing the Unconscious; Dealing with Desire
Description / Table of Contents:
Reassembling the Reflexive SubjectImagination and Emancipation; Chapter 6 - Civil Society and its Citizens; The Contexts of Reception; The Horizon of Civil Society; Institutionalized Lifeworlds; Constructive Talk and Social Bonds; The Evolution of Citizenship; Community, Difference, Universality; Citizens and Identity; Part III - Flickering Hopes; Chapter 7 - Democratic Mediations?; Television in its Place; Citizens and Politics; Common Domain, Advocacy Domain; References; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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